This is what I'm hoping for from the MTH Spring Catalog

My current wish list, all Premier:

NO ABA WIRE TETHERS

PRR 2-10-2 N1s

N&W Class A  2-8-8-4  #1218

21” Passenger Sets: 

Amfleet 

Amtrak Viewliner Sleeper & Diner 

Amtrak Bi-Level sets w/ Full Dome car

Santa Fe Bi-Level sets w/ Full Dome car

Penn Central

FP7 AA (or ABA where appropriate):
Amtrak, Reading, Milwaukee Road (Hiawatha), PRR, SEPTA, Penn Central 

Reading Crusader scale full set w/ 21" cars

Amtrak E60
Amtrak HHP-8 

SEPTA Subway/Elevated sets
SEPTA Silverliner Commuter train sets
SEPTA Kawasaki single-end LRV

SEPTA Brill Bullet cars

Metroliners:

PRR, Penn Central, Amtrak 

Rail Diesel Cars (RDC) scale sets (any and all roads)

New Jersey Transit GP40PH-2B (Atlantic City Line, rebuilds from GP40s)

F7 ABBA:
Penn Central 

E8 ABA:
Penn Central 

SD45:
Penn Central

GG1:  

Penn Central (black paint)

Fairbanks Morse Trainmaster: 

Milwaukee Road

How about the DDA40X…………………..

Regards,

Swafford

Original by Michael Eby          Painted by Frank Swafford

Some new Euro freight cars (new molds, not just new paint jobs). So far we have a boxcar and a reefer in steam era and a tank car and a gondola in modern era. We could use a bit more variety. And let's have a few more beer car paint jobs on the existing steam era reefers. We could start with Pilsner Urquell, then maybe how about Hofbrau, Spatenbrau, and Dortmunder Union. 

Don't say that. Now they'll all appear at the same time. BTW, the H1's ship next month. Can't wait.

As much as I'd like to see some newly tooled items, as was suggested above, I suspect the new catalog will be heavily oriented toward, if not exclusively, previously released models featuring the new electronics.

Bob

I find it interesting that no one else posted a wish for DCS operated cars. For example  an operating crane car like the fine example Lionel produced. Yes I know DCS can operate that car, my point is I'd like to have more fun operating stuff with the remote. 

Any of the kids we are trying to get into the hobby want to know what they can do with the remote, that is how they are wired.

Regardless, I'm looking forward as I always do to the new MTH and Lionel catalogs.

And maybe, just maybe that SP Kodachrome will be on the next page.

Paul

I asked Mike Wolf at the last York about the Timken locomotive and was told--- nobody wants it. So they have no plans on ever building the Timkin.  Maybe I'll ask Lionel this time.

I have some extra spending dough available right now,

I would put it up for diesels in Missouri Pacific blue and gray or for its subsidiaries, Texas Pacific, Kansas Oklahoma &Gulf or Missouri &Illinois.

Tops on the list would be the Baldwin Baby Face cab units.
Alco FA's or RS3 would be great.

F7s in T&P, KO&G or MP, all wore the same scheme.

Dan

Hoping to see LIRR H-10s and NYC J1e with a PT tender and disc drivers in Premiere 

 

 

AND why is that Matthew? I'm still waiting for my beloved Timken to be made accurately as well as other Northern Pacific or Milwaukee Road steam. Before we start making European items...how about a good model of the Northern Pacific Northern. The Northern Pacific only invented the Northern...that's all! 

 

 

Originally Posted by SJC:

I'd like to see some Imperial European offerings. I know I'd be a buyer, despite a "local" roadname focus. 

 

I really don't need ANY new pieces. I've got all I need and want. I DO want an RS1 and missed out on the LIRR RS1 unfortunately. I'd love them to reissue it since I want one. 

Senor Bonner...

No engine with an orange diamond or yellow-ish circle on the tender will ever do me any good. You know better. 

There won't be any new tooling in the MTH catalog (my prediction).  Instead we will have more husky stack cars in absurd roadnames carrying containers that are extremely unprototypical.

MTH doesn't care about us, except what they can sell to us, that they can make cheaply.  MTH  DOES care about:

1)  The HO guys

2)  The S guys

3)  European O modelers

I'm with you Railrunnin.

I've requested a DCS Crane car several times.

I have also requested a cost effective upgrade to put a proto-coupler on any enclosed car. I understand it would be hard to hide on a flatcar and Gondolas or similar would have to have a load covering the board.

If they can make the Coors Silver Bullet cars smoke and open the doors on command, they can make couplers work. 2 operations each, it can't be that hard.

Now, How about some Rio Grande STEAMERS???

Need some new accesssories. Has been a very long time since something new has come out.

PRR N5 caboose

M36PH's in Metra paint 

The MTH catalog is likely only contain mostly reruns, and new paint schemes, but that’s OK with me. If I am lucky, there will be something I want and missed the fist time around. The economy is lousy, and improving at a snails pace. I imagine MTH is putting their resources where they can get the best return. Remember, product development comes from profits.
The amount and verity of O scale items available today is beyond our wildest imaginations of only a few years ago so we really have little to complain about.
That said, If they are listing, here is what I would like to see:
A B&O 70ft streamlined RPO.
A GE 44 Ton.
And Railking 60ft streamlined passenger cars painted in B&O’s traditional blue and gray.

MTH, like all importers wants to sell us "stuff". To say they don't care is a bit silly. I find MTH, Lionel, Atlas, Weaver, ... all care about the industry they serve. Just because I probably won't get my SF Kodachrome does not mean they don't care.

In addition, I hope they keep selling a load of European and HO stuff. That will help fund other projects that I may one day enjoy.

Paul

I actually hope there is nothing in the new catalog I want. I have so much on pre-order now I need to get a second job! But I'm sure I'll see something I just can't live without.

Well, it should be pointed out that the Coors cars are a little different, in that the signal is sent from the locomotive, and the feature not only does not address individual receivers (to the best of my knowledge), but isn't known to be reliable beyond 3-4 cars. I bought two extra reefers for my Coors set before the slope-backed tail car was announced, and the fifth car in my train doesn't always "get the message" with the rest of the train. My YouTube video of it employs a bit of creative editing to kind-of disguise that fact 

The feature seems like it would need a lot more development to work with the sheer number of couplers such a feature will eventually may have to deal with. And it likely would not extend to other manufacturers' rolling stock.

---PCJ

I, for one, am eagerly awaiting to see how much MTH "cares" about us S guys!

Rusty

Martin, Is there anything you would like to see in this or anyone elses next catalogs?

I still enjoy turning those pages every time I get my hands on a new catalog.

All the best,

Paul

I will actually be quite happy if there's nothing I want in the new MTH catalog (or Lionel, for that matter). The only thing that could possibly make me go for more than a freight car or two would be a Milwaukee Road steamer (not gonna happen, for well-known reasons) or something interesting in the Euro line. I just got the notice that my credit card has been charged for the 13 Weaver Milwaukee Road ribside boxcars I pre-ordered, and that is the last pending pre-order (credit card of Damocles?) that I had. I'll be quite happy if a year or so goes by without any more major train expenditures. I have enough already. There are things that would tempt me, but absent some very exotic and unlikely new products, I'd rather spend the money on other things, or just save it for the future.

Now you're talking!!!

I'm on board with wanting some Timken items. I really dont know why, I pretty much buy any Timken I come across. There's not much out there. I do understand the market is small for it and it will never happen.

Some cool remote operated items would always be welcome. It's all good. 

Seems there are lots of complaints about what may or may not be in the catalog.  Nobody is forcing us to buy anything or like the catalogs.  None of us has been inside the heads of the folks in charge at MTH, Lionel, or any other manufacturer.  And we must remember that cumulatively, we have many likes, dislikes, and preferences on what we want to see.  They can't make everyone happy.

You make a good point. Addressing is a requirement for uncoupling the right car. Sounds like a good use for that Aux button not currently used. That will allow lots of operating cars without using up precious Engine numbers.

I must say that my Coors Light train acts far better than yours. I can have some of the cars on a totally separate siding and they will still respond to command. The Tail car is the most picky, but it's problem is a sticky limit switch in the door mechanism. I really should just replace it instead of fiddling with it every time.

This design would need reprogramming for addressing, but that is not as costly as making a new PCB. It is perhaps memory limited so addressing can't be done, but memory is cheap. And microprocessors with more memory in the same footprint/pinout are often available.

1) I want a P2 boxcab electric that can handle smaller than 0-72 curves!

2) Bilevel commuter cars..no skidoo please

3) remote DCS action cars or at least the ability to convert those we have. As mentioned, we can control switches...why not action cars?

4) here's one from left field...how about a fireless steamer?...yeah, that'll happen right after they make an 0-36 capable P2 boxcab, I know. 

An MTH Premier RF&P 4-8-4 "Statesmen" series locomotive (the "James Madison" unit would be nice); however, I'm prepared to continue waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting...

I'd like to see a Premier:

SP 4-6-2- Pacific with vandy tender

SP Mikadao with vandy tender

Matt

After seeing a custom painted version (possibly Jeff Sohn's fabulous work to pair up with the K-Line fantasy modern passenger car set - my apologies if my custom paint credit is wrong) a number of years ago I think I might have asked for this in some prior year's "What I'd like to see from MTH catalog" thread.  I was reminded of the engine while browsing Athearn's future N scale offerings.  Since MTH is arguably more inclined toward producing "fantasy" schemed engines I think they should release this attractive F59PHI in O gauge scale (Railking or Premier).

I would like to see the F-7 Southern ABA in green / imitation aluminum since they have done NS and Southern in the black scheme (twice in Southern). 

As for the FP7 idea from the OP, since 3rd Rail is coming out with them later this month, will Lionel or MTH ever come out with their own versions? I hope they consider, since they might be a little less expensive.

Yet SNCF purchased hundreds of American-built 141R's after World War II .

I still hope all of the European stuff offered continues to be available (would like to see the Duchess available in LMS red again).  I would like to see the Nohab AA16 eventually released, as well as reefers not in a beer paint scheme (just lettered for the railways), and an Austrian Class 310 2-6-4.  If I had the money and space, I'd purchase one of each European item made so far.

Aaron